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Genuine courage is to do without witnesses something that...

Genuine courage is to do without witnesses something that someone would be capable to do if the entire world would see.

Quote by François de la Rochefoucauld about courage, world

Genuine poetry can communicate the feeling before it is...

Genuine poetry can communicate the feeling before it is understood.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between...

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about tragedy, bad, rightness, world

Jesus Christ is the only genuine priest, the other ones...

Jesus Christ is the only genuine priest, the other ones are just his servants.

Quote by Toma de Aquino about god

They did interviews with my wife and daughter - they were...

They did interviews with my wife and daughter - they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Quote by Willie Aames about attack, fasting, food, wife, fear, heart, day

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something....

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I...

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Quote by Winston Churchill

How can any one have genuine happiness, unless in...

How can any one have genuine happiness, unless in proportion as he looks round, and, behold, every thing is very good?

Quote by William Godwin about happiness, things, good, good luck

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about sleep, people, rightness, love

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about politics, example, world, society

I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people...

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, help, bankers, world, change, people, death, day

The most murderous poison is the genuine tear.

The most murderous poison is the genuine tear.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about breake-up

I instinctively know where to draw the line. I genuinely...

I instinctively know where to draw the line. I genuinely feel that because people know me so well they understand my personality.

Quote by Kylie Minogue about truth, personality, people

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Quote by George Orwell about opinion, saints, temptation, human imperfections, people

There are two ways of being happy, one is to pretend that...

There are two ways of being happy, one is to pretend that are a fool and the second is to be a genuine fool.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about happiness, being

Every genuine writer has a voice of his own - an inward voice that stems from his temperament as well as from experience. The experienced teacher listens to that voice, helps bring it out.

Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about teachers, voice, writers, experience

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